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Sunday, 22 June 2014

SmackTalk 20.06.14

SmackDown’s generally a one match show. That’s not necessarily
a bad thing. It can lead to good matches ad interesting matches and good
interesting matches. This week’s show featured the latter. The seven
participants in the WWE championship ladder match at Money in the Bank were
placed in a four-on-three handicap match. It was well booked and made the more
important match the seven are to be involved in seem more interesting.

It’s an approach I think WWE should use more often. Getting
a number of guys together who don’t usually interact is a good way of starting
fresh issues. With that seeming to be something WWE has a problem with (so much
so that they rarely bother doing it outside of the main event) it’s odd that
they’ve not realised this themselves.

Anyway, just for fun, here’s a tweeting session I did.

Seth Rollins v
Kofi Kingston

Tweet 1: Let's tweet some
Smack.

Tweet 2: First guy out is
Seth Rollins, meaning I have to make the obligatory Agents of SHIELD comment.

Tweet 9: Michael Cole's
welcoming us to the show after the first match and a recap vid. Weirdo.

Tweet 10: John Cena on
SmackDown? SAYWHAAAAAAT?!

Tweet 11: Cole's
introducing himself AGAIN. This is getting out of hand.

Tweet 12: Cena's jokes
falling flat there.

Tweet 13: Rough cut to the
crowd chanting "Yes!" It's almost like they didn't take Cena's
original cue and had to be prompted a couple more times.

Tweet 14: Hahahaha
interrupted by Del Rio of all people.

Tweet 15: Remember when
ADR first debuted and he feuded with Rey about three separate times in his
first year?

Tweet 16: Sheamus came
out. I wanted him to say that he was going to unify the US title with the WWE
and World titles to make the WWE triple crown.

Tweet 17: He didn’t. Poor.

Tweet 18: Heyman getting
the most heat of the entire show by mentioning Lesnar ending The Streak there.

Tweet 19: Reigns and Cena
could be something one day.

Wouldn't surprise me if this was a WrestleMania main event one day, to be honest.

Tweet 20: And I don't mean
slash fic.

Tweet 21: Randy Orton. Go
to guy for exciting promo segments.

Tweet 22: That promo
segment ended with all the guys fighting. Didn't see that comin'...

Dolph Ziggler v Bad News Barrett

Tweet 23: Dolph putting
the moves on Lilian Garcia there.

Tweet 24: Bad News Cape
Klaxon!!

Tweet 25: Leave it to
Barrett to drop in a football reference. Helping to stereotype all Brits as
football lovers.Tweet 26: Could've done
with that being longer. Still good though. I want Ziggler v Barrett on the next
three PPVs. I'll take them in MITB together.

Tweet 27: Bad News hit
Ziggler so hard that his music stopped. Impressive.

Titus O’Neil v Adam Rose

Tweet 28: They're idiots
for not saving Titus v Rose for a pay-per-view.

Tweet 29: Love the fact
that Rose's entourage are the most excited people in the arena. Most people in
the crowd aren't bothered.